Today is day number one.Health Time Capsule: Pretend you're making a time capsule of you and your health focus that won't be opened until 2112. What's in it? What would people think of it when they found it?

Our Time Capsule

How would I encapsulate diabetes to show others what it was like, in 2012, to have and care for someone with diabetes? All I can think of is all the things that we use to take care of Grace. The literal things. There are so many devices we use to keep her healthy.

Here is what I would put into our time capsule:

syringes
an empty, or perhaps for posterity, a completely full bottle of Novolog
a glucometer
lancets
Grace's logbook of BGs
a Calorie King carb counting book (this ought to make them chuckle in 2112)
a food scale
test strips
ketone blood test strips
the damn Pink Panther book!
Grace's information about being admitted to the hospital upon her diagnosis in January, 2009
an OmniPod, with the original operation book
a note, from me, that tells them of my hope for a cure for Type 1

how you climb up the mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. and, so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one big gigantic test followed by one big gigantic lesson. in the end, it all comes down to one word. grace. it’s how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light.